Today was a rest day for running.  Foot still feeling wonky.  I may have to skip my Tuesday hard run.  I hope not.  But maybe.

But, getting back to grueling things that DID happen on schedule, today was the first day of my new PU/SU improvement program.  In the new program, Monday is my PU/SU “long day”.

Two minutes of push-ups, two minutes of rest, one minute of push-ups, one minute of rest (twice), thirty seconds of push-ups, thirty seconds of rest (twice).  Same for sit-ups.  Some of you are grimacing in remembered disgust of this one.  This may have been the most common PU/SU workout I did during the time when I was trying to max the CPFT originally (and later the APFT).  I HATE this workout.

And you know what they say about workouts/exercises you hate to do: you probably suck at them and should be doing them.  Yup.  The truth hurts.

For all sets the key is to maximized continuous effort and number of push-ups even if it means going to your knees and doing modified push-ups.  The idea is to do as many push-ups as possible but also to keep your arms and body moving and minimize rest. For me it looked like this:

Push-ups:

• 65
• 35
• 25
• 21
• 17

Sit-ups:

• 83
• 43
• 40
• 22
• 21

The push-up numbers are somewhat suspect (+/-10%).  The level of effort was such that attempts to remember what number I was on or finished on were a little sketchy.  It felt great.  I really like this workout.  And I really think it’s going to improve my performance.  Why?  Train as you fight.  And it sucked (see above).